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Posted February 14, 2018 05:29 pm

Outdoors briefs: Savannah Boat Show coming March 2-4

Savannah Boat Show

coming March 2-4

GREENVILLE, S.C. — Veteran boat show management company, JBM & Associates, has announced that the 16th annual Savannah BoatShow is on March 2-4, at the Savannah International Trade & Convention Center on Hutchinson Island.

The Jacksonville In-Water Boat Show will be held April 13-15, at the Metropolitan Park in downtown Jacksonville, Florida.

“We were approached in November by the Jacksonville Marine Association about producing an in-water show in April. With our contacts in the industry and 17 years of boat show management experience, we felt it was a good fit for my team,” said JBM president JacquiBomar.

The fifth annual Charleston In-Water Boat Show will be held April 22-24, at the Bristol Marina and Brittlebank Park in downtownCharleston, S.C.

Wrapping up JBM’s 2018 season will be the third annual Wilmington Boat Show, Sept. 7-9, at the Port City Marina and WilmingtonConvention Center in Wilmington, N.C.

Visit www.JBMshows.com for show details or call 864-250-9713.

Turtle released off

Florida Keys after rehab

MARATHON, Fla. — A young loggerhead sea turtle rescued from a fishing trap line has been returned to her ocean home off the Florida Keys.

Booga, named after the commercial fishing boat whose crew rescued the 125-pound (57-kilo) reptile in late September, was released Saturday at Marathon’s Sombrero Beach as hundreds of Keys residents and visitors watched.

The crew found the turtle tangled in a fishing trap line.

Booga’s right rear flipper was amputated due to the severe entanglement injury. Additional treatment included broad-spectrum antibiotics, vitamins, laser treatment, physical therapy and a healthy diet of squid and lettuce.

Turtle Hospital officials said that even with the missing flipper, Booga has excellent chances to survive and breed.

Boaters clinging to capsized

vessel rescued off Louisiana

PORT FOURCHON, La. — The U.S. Coast Guard said two boaters found clinging to the hull of their capsized vessel in the Gulf of Mexico have been rescued.

The Coast Guard said in a statement that a search for the boaters ended Tuesday after a good Samaritan vessel, Lady Tierny, discovered them roughly 20 miles (30 kilometers) southeast of Port Fourchon, Louisiana, and took them to emergency medical services there.

The statement says the Coast Guard Sector New Orleans had received a report that the boaters’ 23-foot (7-meter) white Mako commercial fishing vessel had not returned when expected.

The Coast Guard says three good Samaritan fishing boats were involved in the search for the missing boaters.

Bodies of ice fishermen

found at Indiana pond

FRANKTON, Ind. — Authorities say the bodies of two ice fishermen have been recovered from an Indiana pond.

The Madison County sheriff’s department said the bodies were found around midnight Tuesday at Camp Kikthawenund near Frankton, about 35 miles (56 kilometers) northeast of Indianapolis.

The Madison County coroner’s office identified the men as 44-year-old Ed Bollman and 77-year-old Roger Chezem, both of Anderson. Bollman was an off-duty Indiana Department of Natural Resources conservation officer and officials say the men were longtime friends.

Sheriff’s Lt. Darwin Dwiggins says that when the men didn’t return as expected from fishing Tuesday a relative of one of them reported about 9 p.m. that they were missing. A hole was found in the ice and the bodies were recovered by divers following a search.